Baker&#39;s peel



Patented May 2, 1933 UNrren STATES HENRY L. SCHROEDER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS nexnns PEEL Application filed November 30, 1931. Serial No. 577,937.

The invention relates to an improvement in bakers peels and more particularly to an proved construction of the wooden blade portion of a bakers peel.

In devices of this Character, chiefly used for inserting and removing loaves of bread and analogous bakery goods in relation to baking ovens, the blade portions of such devices are commonly made of wood relatively th n and of various lengths and widths but in every case of appreciable widths so that from the nature of the device when-constructed of a single ply or a thickness of wood in one ntegral piece or when joined together w th the lateral edges of the strips in side to s1de relation by dowel pins and the like as heretofore proposed and practised, such blades are found to have objectionable warping 1n many cases on account of the heat to wh ch such devices are submitted in connection with the ovens in which environment they are particularly designed to be used. It is a primary object of my mventl'on to construct a bladefor a bakers peel of wood consisting of a plurality of pieces all of which have the grainv of the wood running long tudinally of the strips and so o1ned longitudinally that the oint will be capable of holding the strips against the tendency to warp and pull apart, particularly at the end or extremity of the blade remote from where the handle portion is joined which is often relatively much thinner at this end than throughout other portions of the blade.

Other objects of the invention will appear from the following description of the preferred embodiment thereof, whichis hereinafter described with reference to the drawing,

forming a part of the specification, the novel features being set forth in the appended claims.

In the said drawing:

Fig. 1 is a side elevation view of a prepared, 4 specially rabbeted, composite plank or strip of wood, illustrating the manner in which it is preferred to be sawed for severing or separating the same into two wedge-shaped com posite planks that are adapted tohave the 5 thickened ends of each preparedin the mansired width or' length.

nersubsequently illustrated and described for attachment of the handle thereto.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of one side of one of the blade portions of Fig. 1 after being finished and formed for the attachment of the handle thereto,and Fig. 3 is a plan viewof the reverse side thereof.

Fig. 4: is a sectional View illustrating the manner in which the composite strips of wood are prepared for securement together to prevent any possibility of separation .of the blade portions in use, the section being taken through the thick handle portion of one of the prepared peel blades on the line 4-4 of Fig. 3 looking in the direction in'dicatedby the arrows.

Figs. 5 to 7 inclusive are broken, transverse sectional viewstaken through different portions of the finished peel blade as illustrated in Figs. 2 and 3, the views being taken on 9 lines 55, 66 and 7- 7 respectively, looking in the respective directions indicated by thearrows.

"In the preparation of'my improved multiple strip of wood blade,'I prefer to take wooden planks or strips that are sawed or cut from the log so that the grain of the wood extends as far as possible substantiallyparallel with the direction of the out of the'tool in forming the strip or plank. 1

Peel blades for bakers use are desired in a variety of lengths and widths for. various conditions of use in bake shops; Inwidth,

the completed blade may vary anywhere from six orseven inches up to as wide astwenty inches or more, while in length, they vary anywhere from twenty'to forty inches more or less and my invention is applicable to the manufacture'ofthese wood blades of any de- The construction of my improved multiple strip peel blade will best be seen by an inspection of the two plan views of the completed device as shown in Figs. 2 and 8 in which Fig.

3 is a plan view of the reverse side of 2 and from which it will be'seen that the'completedblade, designated generally by the reference character 10, is made up of a plurality of longitudinal'sections or strips 11 to 13 inelusive and the manner in which these strips tudinal side by side relation. In peel blades of narrower widths, fairly satisfactory results may be obtained by the use of two separate strips united longitudinally by a single joint but the number may be increased to three or four or even more of such joined strips depending upon the. desired width of the completed blade and the nature or character of the wood employed, the use of the mul- 1 tiplestrips, longitudinally joined, in the improvedmanner illustrated, being for the purposes of alternating the character of the'grain and preserving the fiat form of the original peelbladewhen the same is exposed to excessive degrees of heat as must be the case when, the same is used in connections with bakers ovens in handling loaves of bread and other bakers products in the usual and normalmanner in which such devices are commonly used. I

In the embodiment of the invention shown, the separate strips 11, 12 and 13, where they are joined together, will preferably be specially prepared by providing them with tongues or teeth in the general formof an apex of a triangle as designated at 14. They willthen be assembled in the manner illustrated in Figs. 2 to 7 inclusive and united with a suitable tenacious glue andthe peel bladessuitably shaped at one end for the attachment of a handle, not shown, by which the peel is usually'operated. The blades of Figs. 2 and 3 show one form that maybe employed in which what is the thicker ends of the blades are narrowed at 15 and the narrowed portion slotted as at 16 to receive a detachable handle which may be secured in the slot- 16 by means of suitable bolts, not shown, passing through spaced openings, as indicated at 17. The'handle, however, may be attached tothe blade in various ways well known in the art and the same forms no part of my invention- While itis possible to prepare the longitudinal strips 11, 12 and 13 fromwhich my peel blade is made, in various ways for assembling, one convenient way of" preparing and assembling individual strips making up the unitary blades is as follows:

Assuming that the blades 10 at thehandle. attaching end are desired to be approximately three-quarters inches thick and thebladeto gradually decrease in thickness toward the V opposite end according to the usual construction, a plurality of strips as 11,12 and 13 approximately one inch thick, provided with co-operating spaced-apart tongues 14 with intermediate mating grooves therebetween, may be prepared and secured together by gluing them, thus making a plank approximately one inch thick and approximately the desired width of the peel blade at the maximum width of its blade portion. Such a construction is diagrammatically illustrated in Fig. 1 which is a side elevation view of the same and the assembled multi-strip plank, one inch thick, may then be divided into two planks for the making of two peel blades of the general character shown in Figs. 2 and 3 by sawing it in the manner illustrated in Fig. 1 along the line 19, the complete assembled plank one "inch thick being designated by the reference character 18. In this manner, two composite peel blade blanks, approxi-' mately three-quarters inches at their handle ends and one-fourth inch thick at their opposite extremities may be produced from a single assembled strip or plank without loss of material; These composite blank strips are designated in the drawing, Fig. 1, by the reference characters 20, 21 and as to dimensions they will be duplicates.

This cutting of the blank or plank 18 along the line 19 for severing the same into two like composite portions for the making of two peel blades, is an important feature of my inven tion forthe sake of economy and in securing beneficial results from the character of the joint employed which will give the assembled sections of the blade firm resistance against detachment from each other when the blade is in use.

When the plank 18 is sawed .in the plane along'the intermediate line 19 as illustrated in Fig. 1, it will be seen that the kerf of the saw will tend to cut slightly across the grain of the wood and will also intersect the tongues and grooves formed by the spaced parallel tongue members 1 1 and after the blanks 20', 21 thus formed or cut as illustrated for the attachment of the handles and after their thinner extremitiesare still further re duced and roundedv to form the engaging tip of the blade 0 o'pos'ite the handle end thereof as illustrated y the dotted line portions 22' in Fig. 1, the blades will be in condition for use by having the usual" handles attachedto them and their respective flat side portions will present substantially the appearance of the two reverse sides of theblade illustrated inFigs.2and3.

Assuming that a wood plank or blank like that illustrated in elevation. in Fig. 1 has the spaced-apart tongues 14 formed in the lateral edges of the oined sections as illustrated in Figs. 1 to 7 inclusive in a manner that the tongues and grooves extend substantially parallel with the flat sides of the multi-strip plank or beam 18, it will be seen that each of the peel blade blanks 20, 21 when severed along the angular plane of cut asillustrated by the line 19, will on one side having the exposed line of joining between the united sectionsin the form of substantially straight lines as illustrated at 24 and 25 in Fig. 2 except for the extreme end of the thin portion which if thinned down to the manner illustrated at 22 in Fig. 1, will then according to the plane of the cut give the lines 24 and 25 an angular extension as designated at 26 and 27 in both Figs. 2 and 3, that is, on both sides of the blades. It will be seen, however, that on the reverse side of each of the blade blanks where the line of cleavage or kerf of the saw cuts angularly as illustrated at 19, the plane of the cut will intersect the alternate tongue and grooved portions 14 so that the line of joining on that side of each plane blank will not be straight but will vary to follow the plane of the cut in the manner illustrated by the irregular lines 28 and 29 in Fig. 3. By this mode of joining the independent sections 11, 12 and 13 together longitudinally, when coupled with the herein described method of severing the blank angularly into two portions, will, where the tongues 14 with their intervening spaces are suiiiciently small and numerous as indicated, produce a superior type of joint in which virtually every portion thereof will be braced against the possibility or likelihood of separation on account of the tendency of the different sections to move, one out of the plane of the other, due to contraction and tendencies of the wood to change its form when heat is applied to the device in the oven or when warping tendencies appear due to drying or changing of the wood strips from other causes as when the wood portions become dampened or water soaked in use and are frequently dried. Thus, it will be seen, that I have provided an improved form of multistrip bakers peel blade to be made of wood and which has superior qualities for resisting tendencies of the wood to warp or the sections to separate.

I claim:

1. A wood peel blade for bakers use and the like comprising a plurality of individual wood strips united longitudinally of each other by means of interlocking tongue and groove portions, the said tongues and cooperating grooves being formed to besubstantia-lly triangular in cross section.

2. A wood peel blade for bakers use and the like comprising a plurality of individual wood strips united longitudinally of each other by means of interlocking tongue and groove portions, the said tongues and cooperating grooves oeing formed to be substantially triangular in cross section, and one of the flat sides of the blade being formed in a plane to intersect one or more pairs of co-operating tongues and grooves.

3. A wood peel blade for bakers use and the like comprising a plurality of wood strips provided with a handle attaching portion at one end, the said wood strips forming a composite blade and being united longitudinally of each other by means of interlocking tongues and grooves each formed substantially in cross section in the form of a triangle and united by a suitable adhesive material whereby to secure the said strips together, the said peel blade being tapered to a comparatively thin portion toward the end thereof opposite the handle attaching portion, one flat side of the blade being formed at an angle to the longitudinal direction of the said tongues and'grooves of the strips whereby to providean angular intersection through one or more co-operating pairs of said tongues and grooves between the strips of which the composite blade is formed.

4. A wood peel blade for bakers use and the like comprising a plurality of individual wood strips provided with a handle attaching portion at one end, the said wood strips being united in side by side relation longitudinally of each other by means of mating, interlocking tongue and groove portions that are formed in cross section substantially triangular and extending continuously between the Hat sides of the peel along the mating edges of the individual joined strips.

5. A wood peel blade for bakers use and the like comprising a plurality of individual wood strips provided with a handle attaching portion at one end, the said wood strips being united in side by'side relation longi-' tudinally of each other by means of mating,

interlocking tongue and groove portions that are formed in cross section substantially triangular and extending continuously between the fiat sides of the peel along the mating edges of the individual joined strips, and being engagingly united within the joint thus formed by a wood glue or analogous adhesive.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name this 13th day of October,

HENRY L. SCI-IROEDER. 

